Article October 6, 1973 Issue

A Yoke to Lighten Our Burdens

MIRIAM KERNS

To one weighted down with the cares of this world, what glorious comfort these words offer: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest"!^{Matt. 11:28;}

The one who uttered them has left no record of breaking promises or failing to help any who came to him in need. And yet there are those in the world today, heavy-laden indeed, who do not heed his words. "Jesus is gone," perhaps they may say. "How can we go to him? These words were intended solely for those who were alive in his day."

First of all, who is this "me" the Master refers to? Certainly it is not his human selfhood, or the man Jesus, who has long since left earth. Mary Baker Eddy explains it clearly in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is without beginning of years or end of days."^{Science and Health, p. 333;}